Members are free to nominate as many debates as they wish, but will only get 1 vote. Nominating your own debates is discouraged (if no one else thought of it, it probably should not be a candidate) but permitted. The criteria will be completely subjective, but serious intellectual debates are encouraged (in my subjective opinion anyway). Good luck to all!

This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

I would love to post an exemplary debate; unfortunately, I haven't seen any groundbreaking or astonishing debate this month....Frankly, I must admit that there's been a great decline in the quality of the recently-ended debates that I vote and skim over (lack of substance in arguments, depth, sources, and so forth) but I'll post one debate that comes remotely close to what a "debate of the month" should be like...

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." --Terence

"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality."--Thoreau

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

I though this one was pretty good. Although I do agree that the quality does seem to have gone down a bit recently. Hopefully this thread will reveal some that were missed, and bring some attention back to the concept of searching for and having good debates rather then creating new threads about how bad DDO has gotten.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

Popculturepooka, all this time, you've literally had nothing to say about any of this?

I mostly nominated it because of the background and all the drama behind it. From what I've read so far its also an intense debate. Yeah, the subject matter is controversial, but...thats the point of debate.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

Popculturepooka, all this time, you've literally had nothing to say about any of this?

I mostly nominated it because of the background and all the drama behind it. From what I've read so far its also an intense debate. Yeah, the subject matter is controversial, but...thats the point of debate.

1. It is the third time he is having such a debate.

2. 000ike made it ridiculously, irrefutably clear that IQ is not genetically based on "race," (which is impossible to prove, because scientifically, it is not a biological distinction). It is arguably that he did not refute every one of Jimtimmy's points, but as Pro, the burden of proof was in Jimtimmy. Therefore, with any shadow of doubt, which was conceded by everyone who commented/voted, then Jimtimmy should be losing.

3. Reasons for voting decision: counter VB royal.

000ikejimtimmyTiedAgreed with before the debate:--0 pointsAgreed with after the debate:--0 pointsWho had better conduct:--1 pointHad better spelling and grammar:--1 pointMade more convincing arguments:--3 pointsUsed the most reliable sources:--2 pointsTotal points awarded:50Reasons for voting decision: Pro did not address the immigrant argument effectively, and mainly depended on Wikipedia for sources. (not a vote bomb?)

Here's another vote:

Reasons for voting decision: there were many good points brought up that both sides argued for/against equally except for the argument regarding how poverty affects intelligence. That argument revealed that since more blacks live in poverty, blacks are less intelligent on average to whites.

At 1/30/2012 2:51:11 PM, BlackVoid wrote:So the debate has been done before, you think Ike won, and the votes are low-quality. How does that warrant it not being a good debate? Maybe we just have different criteria for determining one.

Lmfao.

Yeah. Your criteria is that you just feel like attaching the word "good" next to it because it looks good on your post, I guess. xD

At 1/30/2012 2:51:11 PM, BlackVoid wrote:So the debate has been done before, you think Ike won, and the votes are low-quality. How does that warrant it not being a good debate? Maybe we just have different criteria for determining one.

Lmfao.

Yeah. Your criteria is that you just feel like attaching the word "good" next to it because it looks good on your post, I guess. xD

I'm just asking you why you dont think the debatewas good. Not sure why you responded with a personal insult, but whatever floats your boat. Do you have an answer?

At 1/30/2012 2:51:11 PM, BlackVoid wrote:So the debate has been done before, you think Ike won, and the votes are low-quality. How does that warrant it not being a good debate? Maybe we just have different criteria for determining one.

Lmfao.

Yeah. Your criteria is that you just feel like attaching the word "good" next to it because it looks good on your post, I guess. xD

I'm just asking you why you dont think the debatewas good. Not sure why you responded with a personal insult, but whatever floats your boat. Do you have an answer?

LOL, what did I write that insulted you?

The reasons I presented together approached the entirety of what a debate is comprised.

I'm sorry that I didn't go into detail about how trite, overdone, anachronistic, and hackneyed the arguments were. I simply indicated that it is the third such fail.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.

At 1/29/2012 11:51:56 PM, F-16_Fighting_Falcon wrote:This is a really good idea. I haven't been able to find any good debates to vote on recently, and a contest of this sort would be a great way to get more votes on good debates by encouraging voters to check them out.